Gaza, Hamas, and the Return of Antisemitism

Notes

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• Ibid., pp. 937–38 for further examples.
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• See ADL Global: An Index of Antisemitism (New York, 2014), which surveyed attitudes toward Jews in over 100 countries.
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• See the important investigation by Denis MacEoin, The Hijacking of British Islam (London, 2007), sponsored by Policy Exchange (http://www.policyexchange.org.uk). The US-based Center for Religious Freedom of Freedom House also issued a pioneering report on Saudi textbooks, Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance (2006), http://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/CurriculumOfIntolerance.pdf.
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• See Rapport sur L'antisémitisme en France, 2013 (Paris, 2014) produced by the Service de Protection de la Communauté Juive. The 2012 report, based on French Interior Ministry statistics, showed that 55 percent of all racist violence targeted Jews. The number of violent hate crimes recorded against Jews was ninety-six. There were only nine violent anti-Muslim acts, though there are ten times more Muslims than Jews living in France.
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• Jerry Lewis, “UK Jews feel anti-Semitic backlash,” The Jerusalem Post, July 20, 2014.
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• Laura D. Staetsky and Jonathan Boyd, “Perceptions and Experiences of Antisemitism among Jews in the UK,” Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), July 2014; this report offers a detailed sociological perspective on these issues.
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• See Desmond Tutu, “My plea to the People of Israel: Liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine,” Haaretz, August 14, 2014. In that article, virtually all blame for the Gaza war is placed on Israel, Hamas is invisible, and Israelis are in effect asked to join in the boycott of their own country. Archbishop Tutu's “peace” record with regard to Israel includes the repugnant repetition of the “apartheid wall”-in-Israel myth, the demonization of the “Jewish lobby,” the call for an arms embargo on Israel, and assiduous support for BDS. In the present state of the world, one could say with a touch of irony that he fully “merits” the Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom he received from Barack Obama.
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